(MENAFN- AzerNews) North Korea said that Thursday's launch was its largest
Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), fired during
a drill to demonstrate a“tough response posture” to ongoing
US-South Korea military drills, state media reported.
Photos of the launch released on Friday by the country's
government media showed Kim Jong Un watching the launch with his
daughter, and included photos from space apparently shot by a
camera mounted on the missile.
North Korea fired the ICBM into the sea between the Korean
peninsula and Japan on Thursday, hours before South Korea's
president flew to Tokyo for a summit that discussed ways to counter
the nuclear-armed North.
“The launching drill of the strategic weapon serves as an
occasion to give a stronger warning to the enemies intentionally
escalating the tension in the Korean peninsula while persistently
resorting to irresponsible and reckless military threats,” state
news agency KCNA said.
South Korean and American forces began 11 days of joint drills,
dubbed“Freedom Shield 23,” on Monday, held on a scale not seen
since 2017 to counter the North's growing threats.
Kim accused the United States and South Korea of increasing
tensions with the military drills.
He“stressed the need to strike fear into the enemies, really
deter war and reliably guarantee the peaceful life of our people
and their struggle for socialist construction by irreversibly
bolstering up the nuclear war deterrent,” KCNA reported.
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